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Travel Blogs from Cobh
Cobh
... on the bus and heading to Cobh, the last port of call of the Titanic. We took a guided walking tour through the streets as our guide provided us with insight into the lives of the immigrants who boarded the Titanic in search of a better life ...
A Night To Remember
... down to the wreck in a special submersible (a type of bathyscaphe) they had put the cup, along with some other things, in an mesh onion bag attached to the bottom of the craft so that we could see what happened to articles at a pressure of about 2.5 tons per square inch; inevitably all the air was squashed out of the polystyrene and it ended up a hard, compressed plastic. The Commodore also had a White Star Line red pennant of the same kind that was attached to ...
Glitz and Glamour, 1912 Style
... by Senan Molony. It was designed to try to get to the bottom of the mystery of the SS Californian, the ship who had allegedly seen the Titanic fire distress rockets yet failed to come to her rescue. This is a controversy that has raged on for 100 years; Captain Stanley Lord of the Californian was ostracised for the rest of his life, but was he really the “bad guy” that old and new literature about the Titanic makes him out ...
From the Balmoral, All is Well
... it was time to leave. Sorry for the play on words, but I hate this song almost as much as I hate the film it comes from.
We went into the Marquee Bar out of the way, and it was obvious that the other people present had the same opinion of the singer that I did, as we could still hear her wailing and ululating her way through her repertoire every time the door opened. There was a brief respite as she took her break for half an hour or so, before starting ...
Calmer Waters and Full Steam Ahead
... quite wide of the mark and the hostess was just more or less accepting any answers. So despite scoring 16 out of 20, we didn’t win. :-(
We stayed just long enough to watch the final cabaret act of the evening a ‘swing’ singer called Jamie Clarke. He was actually very good and added a comedy element to his excellent singing. We hadn’t intended staying this late but we enjoyed his show so much we saw it through to the ...